#silent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #silent




I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.


Dennis Chavez


#curtailment #down #during #era #go

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'


David Mamet


#am #ask #course #hemingway #i

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!


Slavoj Zizek


#abstractly #am #annoys #call #chinese

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.


Albert Einstein


#activism #consent #dissent #duty #protest

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.


Jodi Picoult


#silence #sisters

Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.


Faraaz Kazi


#silence #silent-love #love

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.


Chögyam Trungpa


#enlightenment #humor #music #silence #silent-music

she walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself--then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#silence #silent #timid #words #humor

You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.


Simone Elkeles


#rules-of-attraction #skills #tuck #rules

When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls. 



Jarod Kintz


#bizarre #cats #curls #dance #dancing